2023/12/06 by Friederike Landau‐Donnelly · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Spatial and Cultural Studies #Urban Planning and Governance
paper · doi:10.1177/20438206231217561
openalex publication_date 2023/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
This commentary engages with Secor’s intriguing proposition of the spacetimeunconscious as a supplement to quantum physicist and philosopher Karen Barad’s spacetimematter , which puts forth a non-linear conception of time, irreducibly linked with a discontinuous notion of space, and a vibrant, multi-agential perspective onto matter. By interconnecting new feminist materialisms and psychoanalytic geographies, Secor nuances existing approaches in psychoanalytic geographies by placing emphasis on the elemental, material paradoxes of the unconscious – existing in/as/from the same fabric but also outside of themselves, in different aggregate states. With the aim to draw urban studies scholars and geographers closer to psychoanalytic thought, I make use of my own non-expert point of departure to first shed light on the offerings towards the academic politics of knowledge production that Secor's text holds. Second, I specify conceptual alignments between psychoanalytic and hydrofeminist geographical thought. Third, I mobilize the disjointed trope of hauntology to assist Secor's call for a more ambivalence-embracing and poetic approach to the production of geographical texts, knowledge and epistemologies.